The Poetical Works of George MacDonald

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I.

Old fables are not all a lie

That tell of wondrous birth,

Of Titan children, father Sky,

And mighty mother Earth.

Yea, now are walking on the ground

Sons of the mingled brood;

Yea, now upon the earth are found

Such daughters of the Good.

Earth-born, my sister, thou art still

A daughter of the sky;

Oh, climb for ever up the hill

Of thy divinity!

To thee thy mother Earth is sweet,

Her face to thee is fair;

But thou, a goddess incomplete,

Must climb the starry stair.

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